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Coalition concerns

Are coalition governments more or less effective at tackling financial reform?
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Clearing a path through the derivatives maze

It has been a long time in coming but finally the European Commission has outlined its next steps in how it will be regulating the OTC derivative markets. Edmund Lakin takes a look at the latest consultation document
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Balancing Act

There is a growing call for balanced budgets to be introduced after the financial and sovereign debt crises. Bernadette Mill investigates the merits of such a system
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The flash crash

On 6 May, the Dow Jones index had its biggest one-day drop in history. Luke Nelson takes a look at the causes and what is being done to prevent it from happening again
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Caught short

Germany’s decision to ban naked short selling has done it no favours on the global stage and the government was widely criticised for acting unilaterally. Bernadette Mill examines the implications
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Banks unite in concerns over capital requirements directive

The capital requirement proposals published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December have resulted in a global response from banks. Luke Nelson analyses both the shared and divergent opinions in the responses
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Banking on Basel loosening capital requirements

A study suggests that regulators' focus on stringent bank capital requirements risks stifling economic recovery and warns against knee-jerk reactions
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Squaring the circle of financial intermediation Czech National Bank vice-governor Mojmír Hampl, who is also a member of the European Union’s economic and financial committee, is concerned by the perfectionists who are out in force on the regulation front
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Economic tectonics, financial crises & the new Middle East In the second of a series of articles on the Middle East, Dubai International Financial Centre Authority chief economist Dr Nasser Saidi says that a new world order is required with the West no longer being the centre of the economic world
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